Axis Ant Tasks
Axis comes with Ant tasks to automate aspects of the
build process inside ant. To use these tasks, you need
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Apache Ant 1.5.1 or later
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The library axis-ant.jar which contains the tasks
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All the main Axis libraries
Declaring the Tasks
To declare the tasks, set up a classpath to include the axis task JAR and
all the dependent libraries. Including everything in the axis lib directory
should suffice
<path id="axis.classpath">
<fileset dir="${axis.home}/build/lib">
<include name="**/*.jar" />
</fileset>
</path>
Then use the <taskdef> declaration to declare all the tasks listed
in a properties file inside the axis-ant.jar file:
<taskdef resource="axis-tasks.properties"
classpathref="axis.classpath" />
Creating Java files from WSDL
This uses the <axis-wsdl2java> task.
<axis-wsdl2java
output="${generated.dir}"
testcase="true"
verbose="true"
url="${local.wsdl}" >
<mapping
namespace="http://axis.apache.org/ns/interop"
package="interop" />
</axis-wsdl2java>
The mapping elements are used to list the mappings from XML namespaces to
Java packages; you can include as many as you need.
Creating WSDL files from Java
This uses the <axis-java2wsdl> task.
Talking to the admin service
This can be done with the
<axis-admin> task.
<axis-admin
port="${target.port}"
hostname="${target.server}"
failonerror="true"
servletpath="${target.appname}/services/AdminService"
debug="true"
xmlfile="${endpoint-stub.wsdd}"
/>
Here the target.* properties are pulled from a properties file for the
system being deployed to, so a single build file can deploy to different
systems with ease.